Event 2018 NBA Draft

I suppose if you had said #$#$% you'd have been banned. But casual racism is fine if white people are the butt. Welcome to privilege minus power, where upside down is right side up.

 

Or the league is almost 80% black, so the chances of finding the next great player is greater with an African American.

 

Sorry, but yours statement is extremely dumb.

So let's say you have 5 identical players/prospects, but 4 are black and 1 is white... Yes 80% of the players are African American, but if you're only allowed to choose one, the the white guy is just as likely to succeed as any other individual player. Due to the sheer numbers, you'd expect the worst player and best player out of this group to be African-American. Just because the best player is more likely to be African-American doesn't mean you have a better chance at getting the best player by picking an African-American, as each player has equal chances at succeeding or failing, because they're the same player.

That's why you viewpoints on race and basketball are extremely idiotic. They're based on falty logic.

 

Name me the last WABC

 

Stupid post. @Sinobas wasn't banned for posting that. He was banned for being told MULTIPLE TIMES not to post the N word.

Stop revising history rook.

 

Zach Collins. Now suck it.

 

We know this for sure

 

Name me the last one good enough to get drafted 10th or higher. Just because they're rare doesn't mean they won't succeed because of race. For fucks sake.

 

Brad Miller?

 

Why limit it to American born? Name me the last great white center born anywhere on the planet taken in the lottery? Going back at least 12 years (feel free to go back further if you wish), the only international white centers that are any good that were taken in the lottery are Steven Adams and Jonas Valanciunas. I'd consider both of them good, but not great. Neither has averaged a double-double, made an all star or all NBA team. Neither will make the Hall of Fame - not even close.

Heck, there have been far more international white centers, and for that matter, American born African American centers, taken in the lottery in the last 15 years that ended up being total busts than there have been white American born centers.

The last center to win MVP was Shaq 18 years ago. In the 17 years since, a PG has won the NBA MVP 7 times, a SG once, a SF 5 times and a PF 4 times.

There just haven't been a lot of good, skilled, healthy big men of any race or nationality available in the last 15 years. With so many busts, and so few successes, it seems silly to single out a specific race or birthplace when drafting a center in the lottery.

The best four centers drafted in the last 10 years are Joel Embiid, Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins and Karl Anthony-Towns. None of them have won shit. Three of the four have never even made the playoffs and the one that did make the playoffs only made it once and was swept in the first round.

Given the marginalization of the center position, and the lack of talented big men globally, maybe you should change your mantra to "don't draft a center in the lottery" *

*But if you do, draft one from Kentucky - and hope you can surround him with enough other players to actually have a winning record.

BNM

 

Chris Kaman, who was an all-star at one point. Brad Miller was an all-star at one point too. And that's my point in a nutshell.

 

Hmmm. I'm all for it

 

That they suck?

 

Let's see
Kaman: All-Star
Miller: All-Star

Going through white American-born players drafted in the top 10 in the past 10 drafts:
'08 - Love (PF): All-Star
'10 - Hayward (SF): All-Star
'11 - Fredette (SG?): Bust
'14 - Stauskas (SG): Semi-Bust
'15 - Kaminsky (PF): Average for where he was drafted
'17 - Collins (PF/C): TBD

That's a pretty even makeup of players. You'd have a nearly identical spread by looking at African-Americans drafted in the Top 10.

You're logic is literally because there's less of them, the talented ones that do make it to the point of getting drafted top 10 aren't good enough to be drafted there. It's faulty logic. That's like saying a dollar coin isn't really worth a dollar and you'll have more currency with a dollar bill because there's less dollar coins than dollar bills.

It's so illogical it could be construed as racist

 

Great. Call it whatever you want, just don't draft one again

 

draft Dzanan Musa

 

I don't follow this at all but I was just searching for Zach Collins videos and saw some kid names DeAndre Ayton.

Holy shit.

 

Don't draft one? Fucking ridiculous.

 

He's really good. Huge and skilled. Could be the #1 pick.